I would argue that marijuana is illegal because of its historical connection to the black community, not the cogent health arguments you present. Making marijuana illegal gave Jim Crow more teeth. And proved a convenient tool against those damn hippies.
further, I would argue in favor of allowing people to poison themselves in any way they choose. Your public health and safety arguments are almost persuasive... but boil down to allowing insurance companies to dictate what you can do to yourself.
'free access' is a clever idea (I'm tired of cover charges and drink minimums); do I detect an invitation to the welfare island?
"But this involves marijuana, so we're supposed to overlook it and think any regulation is bad."
Marijuana is another example of high demand (excuse the pun) commodity subject to laws that are based on ideology, not market realities or common sense or morality.
Sharing music is illegal because it threatens the profits of a subsection of the power elite.
Marijuana is illegal because it threatens the ideology of a different subsection of the same power elite.
and of course... ideology and profit are expressions of CONTROL. The primary purpose of any power elite is the perpetuation of its survival, i.e. its control.
I wonder if this is the same as the ASCII Trek I played on the mainframes at UCSD in the 70s... Mike's dad was an admin there; his coworkers would yell at us for wasting paper. I still remember waiting for the 'quadrant map' to print out with the R's and K's for Romulans and Klingons... awesome.
is what Trek he thinks is best! c'mon, throw us a frickin' bone here!
(full disclosure - i've voted about a dozen times for TOS - not that it's helped)
if you're omnipotent, you don't care
if you're omniscient, you don't have to ask
and if you're omnipresent, you're standing right next to him and can ask
how easy and rewarding it is play one his client's movies using software approved by his organization... say, an HD movie on a Vista laptop? be sure to point out how the enhanced experience will motivate customers to pour bushels of cash on them.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Vista Ultimate(a P4 w/2 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my G3 Powerbook running OS9, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Internet Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even lynx is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows versions, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows OS that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite Intel's faster chip architecture. My Quadra with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3 GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Vista is a superior OS.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
In fact, I have a degree in it.
Hey kids. Get a degree in something you love, like Latin, or poetry, or whatever.
Then go get a job doing your hobby, like computers (I'm not good enough to be a pro surfer). And keep practicing your love (yes, every kind of love).
This will prevent quantum weirdness like waking up at 35 and realizing you hate your life.
As far as the nature of reality... that's as much as I know.
Slashdot Mirror
'nuff said
can you spare a stock tip?
what's it called when the market goes crying to the government for a bailout because it couldn't 'self regulate'?
No car analogy is ever inaccurate here
dude, you shoulda been here yesterday ;-)
Kelly LeBrock or Elizabeth Hurley?
... for the rings of ...
sorry.
wouldn't pass constitutional muster in any court in America
like warrantless wiretapping or torture?
I would argue that marijuana is illegal because of its historical connection to the black community, not the cogent health arguments you present. Making marijuana illegal gave Jim Crow more teeth. And proved a convenient tool against those damn hippies. ... but boil down to allowing insurance companies to dictate what you can do to yourself.
further, I would argue in favor of allowing people to poison themselves in any way they choose. Your public health and safety arguments are almost persuasive
'free access' is a clever idea (I'm tired of cover charges and drink minimums); do I detect an invitation to the welfare island?
"But this involves marijuana, so we're supposed to overlook it and think any regulation is bad."
... ideology and profit are expressions of CONTROL. The primary purpose of any power elite is the perpetuation of its survival, i.e. its control.
Marijuana is another example of high demand (excuse the pun) commodity subject to laws that are based on ideology, not market realities or common sense or morality.
Sharing music is illegal because it threatens the profits of a subsection of the power elite.
Marijuana is illegal because it threatens the ideology of a different subsection of the same power elite.
and of course
because when you pay the legislature to write laws to your benefit, enforcement is part of the deal
"I visited the macsweeper.com website. I know I probably shouldn't have but I used a Mac so I knew I wouldn't get infected."
...
oh wait
I wonder if this is the same as the ASCII Trek I played on the mainframes at UCSD in the 70s ... Mike's dad was an admin there; his coworkers would yell at us for wasting paper. I still remember waiting for the 'quadrant map' to print out with the R's and K's for Romulans and Klingons ... awesome.
is what Trek he thinks is best! c'mon, throw us a frickin' bone here!
(full disclosure - i've voted about a dozen times for TOS - not that it's helped)
if you're omnipotent, you don't care
if you're omniscient, you don't have to ask
and if you're omnipresent, you're standing right next to him and can ask
"until some moron either drops it while walking down the hallway in front of a teacher"
dude, for the millionth time, i'm sorry! fer cryin' out loud that was 1983, LET IT GO!
how easy and rewarding it is play one his client's movies using software approved by his organization ... say, an HD movie on a Vista laptop? be sure to point out how the enhanced experience will motivate customers to pour bushels of cash on them.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of Vista Ultimate(a P4 w/2 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my G3 Powerbook running OS9, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this file transfer, Internet Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even lynx is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows versions, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows OS that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite Intel's faster chip architecture. My Quadra with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 3 GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Vista is a superior OS. Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
In fact, I have a degree in it.
... that's as much as I know.
Hey kids. Get a degree in something you love, like Latin, or poetry, or whatever.
Then go get a job doing your hobby, like computers (I'm not good enough to be a pro surfer). And keep practicing your love (yes, every kind of love).
This will prevent quantum weirdness like waking up at 35 and realizing you hate your life.
As far as the nature of reality
how can a ST-TNG reference be off topic?
It's a trap!!
quasi-evil? like a petting zoo?
you stole rucs-hacks coffee? that's just mean
"if you kill a man, you're a murderer ... kill many, you're a conquerer ... kill them all, you're a god"
"Captive Honor" ~ MegaDeth
Yes, and thank you for the correction